November 12, 2005
The Golden Gate Bridge -- A Suicide Magnet....
The San Francisco Chronicle has an excellent 7 part series on suicide and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Even when the cooling fog blunts the view, the vast majority of jumpers take their last step facing east instead of west toward the Pacific.
People jump and kill themselves there, an average of 19 a year. In the peak year, 1977, there were 40 suicides.
Once a person dives, depending on where he or she jumps, the body plummets 240 to 250 feet in four seconds, traveling about 75 mph, and hits the water with the force of a speeding truck meeting a concrete building. Some die instantly from extensive internal injuries; others drown in their own blood.
The jump is fatal 98 percent of the time. The Chronicle's research indicates that at least 1,218 suicides were reported between the time the bridge opened, on May 27, 1937, and this past Friday.
BLAST FROM THE PAST! Links to entries with similar content, maybe...
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Send to a friend!
Comments
Where have most of the suicides taken place??? Of course, light post 69... crazy
Next stop--->San francisco!
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